Hollowpoint

Reuland, Rob

ISBN 10: 1587884690 ISBN 13: 9781587884696

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2002

Synopsis

There was a time when Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti pursued his job with vigor and a certain glee. He sent hundreds of perps upstate and commanded the respect of the tough Brooklyn cops whose investigations he steered. Now he mostly thinks about his next drink and the girl he can persuade to share it with him. A hand has reached into his chest and removed something that made the whole machine run. She was five years old, and her name was Opal. Over the course of one impossibly hot August, Gio's life comes apart. It's been a year since his daughter died, but the loss carves away at him still. A case much like others crosses his desk: young girl, dead from a gunshot wound, crackhead mother, very guilty looking boyfriend. Something in this ordinary if tawdry case uncovers a vast well of grief and rage in him, and it's unclear who will be the target of his urge to avenge a pointless death. His steely associate, Stacey - with whom he shares his bed but nothing more - watches with alarm as he lurches toward an act that could prove to be destruction or redemption. He's badly in need of one of them.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can still remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau, working out of a hard city’s hardest precincts. That was before a car accident took his daughter but left him untouched—except where it matters. That was before his wife walked out. That was before he became mired in blame and regret that for a year has emptied his life of all meaning and purpose. Everyone wrote him off as too far gone for saving.

Then a case crosses Gio’s desk—the murder of a young girl—that may change everything. Over one impossibly hot August, Gio confronts the fine line that separates the guilty from the innocent, the killers from those who put them away. And as he seeks the girl’s killer, the truth he uncovers may be the final hit. Or it may give him back his life.

From the Back Cover

“It may just keep you up all night. . . . Affecting and raw.”
—The New York Times

“Sometimes a murder story is just a murder story, but this is not one of those times.”
—The New York Times

“An unforgettable journey . . . Evokes a world few people ever glimpse, via the work of a talented storyteller.”
—The Washington Post

“The beginning of a major literary career.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Simply terrific.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587884690
• ISBN 13: 9781587884696
• Binding: Audio Cassette